Using election banners to make rucksacks

 Xinyi Elementary School, Xue Hui-ling (薛惠玲), had an inspirational idea. She requested the help of her friends around the country to collect election banners before calling on mothers to assist in making eco-rucksacks complete with a pencil pouch, which were given to children in rural areas. 

Director of teaching at Xinyi Elementary School, Yang Shi-cheng (楊世承), said that learning resources for kids at schools in rural areas like Xinyi school were more constrained than for kids in urban areas and that concern for such children was the underlying motivation behind the activity. In the process of interacting with volunteering mothers during the activity, the children not only learned about caring and gratitude, the activity also accorded with the theme of energy-saving and carbon reduction.

Director Yang further mentioned that in the process of choosing banners to make the rucksacks, the children were unconcerned with electoral parties or which candidates got elected, and made choices purely based on their preference for color and design. The activity was clearly a great way to cultivate and strengthen civic awareness.
 

Using election banners to make rucksacks 

URL:http://www.peopo.org/news/261581

(以下是中文對照)

選舉旗幟再利用 做成背包「袋」著走
選舉激情過後，雲林縣信義國小外聘藝術家薛惠玲老師突發奇想，拜託朋友幫忙把各地旗幟收集起來，號召志工媽媽們到校協助做環保背包和鉛筆袋送給偏鄉學童。

信義國小教導主任楊世承表示，信義國小是屬偏鄉學校，學習資源本就比都會兒童少，因而多一份關懷偏鄉兒童也是這次主辦活動的意旨，同時由學生參與活動與志工媽媽們的互動，培養關懷、感恩的情懷，也符合節能減碳的主題。楊主任也提到，小朋友選旗幟做背包不依黨派不分當選與否，純以個人顏色與花色的喜好去挑選，這是公民意識的強調與養成。